In 2011, Vikes announced that a track runner from St. Albert, Alberta, had committed to run for the cross country and track program at UVic. Little did they know then that it would be the start of one of the most prolific athletic careers in UVic history and bring a key contributor to student life to campus.
A recent discovery has given Judy Hanazawa some of her family's history back. Now 70, Hanazawa knew little of their experiences during the Second World War. Some 300 letters of protest from Japanese Canadians, rediscovered as part of the UVic-led Landscapes of Injustice project, reflect the outrage of dispossession.
Three hundred letters from Japanese Canadians, written in the mid to late 1940s, were recently discovered by UVic historian Jordan Stanger-Ross, project director of the UVic-led Landscapes of Injustice research project. The letters reveal unsettling and moving accounts of dispossession.
Two UVic alumni who went on to found the innovative non-profit Fish Eye Project led a live dive Aug. 27 in the icy waters of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, as part of the Canada C3 expedition.
Students from the humanities, social sciences, fine arts and law鈥攏ow back in Victoria after a transformative trip overseas and also in Winnipeg鈥攃ame together for a powerful and challenging field school that brought them to historic sites in Europe and taught them valuable lessons about Canada.
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UVic students are currently visiting historic sites in Europe in a field school examining migration, the refugee crisis and memorialization of the Holocaust. And the learning doesn't stop in Europe: they'll be at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in mid August, then home to UVic for a symposium.
It was the perfect hands-on research project for someone with small hands. Ren茅e Adams' project required extensive preliminary research into archaic death rituals and Egyptian mummification practices, as well as meticulous attention to detail... and a lot of tiny tools.
鈥婽wo UVic professors whose efforts to infuse their teaching and research with lessons from the Holocaust are among 10 faculty members and three graduate students receiving top awards at the university鈥檚 inaugural REACH Awards.
John Borrows, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at UVic, is the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences for his substantial and distinguished scholarship and commitment to furthering our knowledge about Indigenous legal traditions.
This May, an inaugural event鈥攖he REACH Awards鈥攚ill combine the Teaching Excellence Awards with the Craigdarroch Research Awards into a single event that celebrates the extraordinary teachers and researchers who lead the way in dynamic learning and make a vital impact at UVic, in the classroom and beyond.
UVic PhD candidate Alisha Gauvreau is one member of an archaeological team from UVic, the Hakai Institute and local First Nations that found an ancient village site on Triquet Island, reaffirming Heiltsuk First Nation oral history of an ice-free place during the last Ice Age.
A new play by 番茄社区 theatre professor Jennifer Wise celebrates a little-known event in Victoria's gay history. "A Queer Trial" tells the real-life story of John Butt, an openly gay man who in 1860 was acquitted of sodomy charges by two successive juries鈥攖he first jury preferring to spend a night in jail rather than convict him.
From Borneo textiles to the world鈥檚 largest button blanket, from a 15th-century alabaster religious carving to a 19th-century lady鈥檚 pocket revolver, from anarchist manifestos to a Jim Carrey movie, the objects studied by art historians continue to change with the times. So too does the study of art history itself, as evidenced by the current Legacy Maltwood exhibit Learning Through Looking, celebrating the 50th anniversary of UVic鈥檚 Department of Art History and Visual Studies.
A new documentary, The Thinking Garden, about a unique farming collective in a small South African village carries lessons of hope and resilience. It was written and produced by UVic scholars Christine Welsh and Elizabeth Vibert and it officially launches on March 1.
鈥婳n Saturday, the Indigenous versions of the Douglas Treaties鈥攏ever before available in the local languages鈥攚ill be presented in a ceremony at the Songhees Wellness Centre (during a three-day gathering) to the Royal BC Museum to be kept in perpetuity.
